Latest Cloud News: Finextra Research

Minna Bank hits 1 million app downloads in first year

Minna Bank, Japan’s first digital bank, has notched up over 1 million app downloads, and over 400,000 new accounts in their first 12 months.

17 June 2022

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Mast raises £1.2m for mortgage origination platform

London-based cloud-native mortgage origination platform Mast Technologies has raised £1.2 million in a funding round led by Antler VC.

15 June 2022

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MonetaGo pivots from blockchain to cloud citing scalability issues

MonetaGo is ditching blockchain for a shift to the cloud after almost a decade of using distributed ledger technology for its trade finance fraud prevention product.

09 June 2022

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ACI to sell corporate banking tech to PE firm

ACI Worldwide has agreed to sell its corporate online banking technology to private equity firm One Equity Partners. Financial terms were not disclosed.

08 June 2022

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UK financial regulators to be given powers over Big Tech cloud providers

The UK's financial regulators are to be given powers to test the resilience of big cloud providers like IBM, Google, Microsoft and Amazon and perform on-site inspections.

08 June 2022

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Thought Machine launches cards and payments processing platform

UK core banking vendor Thought Machine has launched a cloud-native cards and payments processing platform.

07 June 2022

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EBAday 2022: Cloud is a core pillar of payments, but it’s not magic

Kicking off an afternoon of sessions at EBAday 2022 in Vienna on how technology can take payments to the next level, Patricia Hines, head of corporate banking research, Celent moderated a panel with Patrice Amann, regional business lead – EMEA financial services, Microsoft; Philipp Höfer, group product owner cash management, Raiffeisen Bank International; Jon Lloyd, head of customer success for Europe, Form3; and Steve Wright, principal commercial consultant, Lusis Payments and Consultant, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

31 May 2022

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TCF 2022: Closing the void between banking and fintech

Banking as a Service (BaaS) and Banking as a Platform (BaaP) were key themes throughout both days of the Temenos Community Forum (TCF). These topics were also hit on during a session about how to scale your business, led by Ross Mallace – speakers executive vice president, global head of SaaS and partner ecosystem at Temenos.

19 May 2022

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TCF 2022: Plug-and-play required for hyper-personalisation

Max Chuard, Temenos CEO, opened the Temenos Community Forum 2022 (TCF) introducing a number of the key themes to be covered during the conference, from embedded finance, to disruptive technologies, disintermediation, new business models, composable services, and sustainability.

19 May 2022

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Santander migrates 80% of IT infrastructure to the cloud

Banco Santander has used bespoke, in-house developed software to digitise its core banking platform, already migrating 80% of its IT infrastructure to the cloud.

13 May 2022